This is a photograph by Dijkstra from a series of photographs of the same man. Dijkstra made her photographs of Olivier Silva over the course of thirty-six months, starting when the seventeen-year-old left his home to sign up to the regimen of the French Foreign Legion. A Legionnaire usually knows virtually nothing during his training outside of the Legion itself. Dijkstra used an Extra-diegetic gaze with this image, to let the viewer in on Silva's life. There's a stern facial expression on his face, leaving only the gaze as an insight to his feelings. The gaze I feel connects the viewer and subject, the relationship between viewer and subject, just by the subject looking straight down the lens is very intimate even though the viewer does not know the subject.
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